Parents in Denial About Overweight Kids: Cma

Winnipeg Free Press (August 21, 2006)

Author: Morris, Chris

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"Either they don't know what to look for or they're deluding themselves," [Ruth Collins-Nakai] said in an interview. "They're looking at their children through rose-tinted glasses."

About two dozen pro-medicare advocates huddled in a steady drizzle under umbrellas and chanted "profit is not the cure," as delegates began arriving at a downtown hotel for the official opening today of the CMA's annual meeting.

"If they choose Dr. [Brian Day], who is openly supporting a private, parallel system, they will be saying to the Canadian people, 'we, your doctors, have given up on public health care, in medicare,"' Council of Canadians chairwoman Maude Barlow said in an interview after addressing the small rally.

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Parents in Denial About Overweight Kids: Cma

Public-private medicine fight brewing in MDs' group

By Chris Morris

CHARLOTTETOWN -- Canadian parents need to take off their rose-coloured glasses and get a new pres...

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